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Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Santa Monica, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$9,051 more — $189,051 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $189,051 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation
Green-card follow-through: 100%
Files H-1B transfers
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About the role
- ZipRecruiter has the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android.
- Working at ZipRecruiter, you will be helping literally millions of people find their dream job.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, and the range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.
Requirements
- Most US-based positions can also be performed remotely (any exceptions will be noted in the Minimum Qualifications below.)
Nice to have
- BS/MS/PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- Deeply versed in NLP techniques and tools, such as tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, sentiment analysis, and named entity recognition, and libraries like NLTK, SpaCy, or BERT
- Competitive compensation
- Employer-matched 401(k) plan
Skills
- Provide leadership and set tone for Machine Learning Engineers at ZipRecruiter leveraging industry best practices and innovation
Compensation
- We're working on problems like: given a training set of job postings, and known salaries, build a system that predicts salary for novel jobs.Of course, you know that while building models is fun, it's also just one step in the process; gath
Company info
- ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace. Powered by AI-driven smart matching technology, the company actively connects millions of all-sized businesses and job seekers through innovative mobile, web, and email services, as well as through partnerships with the best job boards on the web. ZipRecruiter has the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android.
- Summary:
- With data such as a billion+ historical job postings, tens of millions of active job seekers interacting with our system, and hundreds of billions of impression and click events, there are incredible opportunities to use your skills to build new data-driven features. Working at ZipRecruiter, you will be helping literally millions of people find their dream job. We're working on problems like: given a training set of job postings, and known salaries, build a system that predicts salary for novel jobs.Of course, you know that while building models is fun, it's also just one step in the process
- gathering training data, cleansing it, digging into it, extracting features from it, etc, is a huge part of the job
- ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace.
- Powered by AI-driven smart matching technology, the company actively connects millions of all-sized businesses and job seekers through innovative mobile, web, and email services, as well as through partnerships with the best job boards on the web.
- With data such as a billion+ historical job postings, tens of millions of active job seekers interacting with our system, and hundreds of billions of impression and click events, there are incredible opportunities to use your skills to build new data-driven features.
- We're working on problems like: given a training set of job postings, and known salaries, build a system that predicts salary for novel jobs.Of course, you know that while building models is fun, it's also just one step in the process; gathering training data, cleansing it, digging into it, extracting features from it, etc, is a huge part of the job
- Key Focuses:
- Design, develop, and maintain advanced machine learning models and algorithms to solve complex business problems
- Lead complex machine learning projects that solve business challenges and add value to the broader ZipRecruiter Business
- Design the overall architecture and infrastructure for machine learning systems, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and robustness
- Push the boundaries of what's possible in machine learning in your organization, finding new and innovative ways to use AI to drive business value
- Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in machine learning and AI, and drive adoption of new techniques and technologies as appropriate
- To actively connect people to their next great opportunity.
- Exceptional benefits package
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off
This listing is sourced directly from ZipRecruiter's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.